I'm Paula, an avid scrapbooker with 2 nearly grown sons. I have been scrapping for about 17 years & decided that I would like to share my love & talents for it with others. I created 'Precious Pages by Paula' to do exactly that. There is a line of pre-designed scrapbooks & frames, as well as doing custom one-of-a-kind albums with your photos. Cards are prayerfully made in the hopes of carrying special blessings to their recipients.

PRECIOUS PAGES by PAULA

Friday, January 17, 2014

FAITH HOPE LOVE

The other day I did an art journal page using scripture 1st Corinthians 13:13

So these three things continue forever

FAITH

HOPE

LOVE

And the greatest of these is

LOVE

I started the page in my usual way - I put a layer of gesso. Next I took my new Heidi Swap stencil and used Dry Dex Spackle for some texture.

Now to add some color. I started by using some Distress Inks.

Then a layer of acrylic paint -

I added some water color crayons and spritzed the page with water and moved the colors around a bit.

It was rather 'in your face' loud so I decided to soften it with a thin layer of watered down gesso.

I added some Ranger Embossing Dabber through the stencil and then some Silver Embossing Powder and some Red Embossing Foil. I heated them up.

My finishing touches were to add the scripture. I used stickers for the words Faith, Hop and Love and Grungeboard for the last word Love. Everything else was done with Pitt pen. I was having trouble getting the stickers to stay on the glittery embossing powders so I topped it with a layer of Matte Mod Podge. A lot of the dimension seemed lost so I outlined a lot of the hearts with my black Pitt pen too!Here it is:

Great job, Paula. Thank you so much for sharing the whole process. I have never used Gesso or many of the other supplies you used on this so it is nice to see how they work. I love how you outlined the hearts...really makes them pop and fits the Scripture perfectly! Great job as always!